AFP - Outrage over Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest will not detract from relief work, key donors said, as the United Nations on Wednesday reported small gains in getting aid to cyclone survivors.
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AP - The Barack Obama campaign said Tuesday the candidate mistakenly referred to the wrong Nazi death camp when relating the story of a great-uncle who helped liberate the camps in World War II.
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AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that some foreign aid workers have gone into Myanmar’s cyclone-ravaged delta without problems, reflecting a “new spirit of cooperation” by the ruling junta.
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AP - John McCain’s complex relationship with President Bush can be summed up with a simple saying: can’t live with him, can’t live without him.
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AP - A Democratic Party rules committee has the authority to restore delegates from Michigan and Florida but not fully seat the two states at the convention as Hillary Rodham Clinton wants, according to a party analysis.
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AP - More than half a million people have been uprooted by conflicts in the first five months of this year the vast majority in Africa and thousands of civilians have been killed from Darfur to Iraq, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Tuesday.
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AP - Her chances of securing the Democratic presidential nomination narrowing by the day, Hillary Rodham Clinton asserted Tuesday that she would be a stronger candidate than Barack Obama to square off against John McCain in November.
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Reuters - Former White House Press Secretary
Scott McClellan says in a new book that President George W.
Bush “veered terribly off course” and was not “open and
forthright on Iraq,” Politico.com reported on Tuesday.
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AP - The U.S. is making “a big and continual push” to capture or kill al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, but his demise won’t end the organization’s menace, CIA Director Michael Hayden said Tuesday in an Associated Press interview. The CIA is equally interested in those jockeying to replace bin Laden in what he predicted will be a “succession crisis.”
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AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said Tuesday the United Nations will investigate allegations by a leading children’s charity that U.N. peacekeepers are involved in widespread sexual abuse of children.
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